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Is that bad? (lemmy.world)
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[-] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago

It's why I'm gonna change to Linux permanently come the end of Win10.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

I've been seriously considering switching to Mint or Ubuntu since they're user friendly. The more I hear about win 11 the less and less I want anything to do with it. also, my pc isn't compatible so there's that ๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

I gave up on windows 11 last week after my downloads folder decided to stop opening any more. Every other folder worked fine, and I could use a save dialogue to see and navigate inside downloads, but if I opened the folder run file explorer I was met woth a never ending "working on it.." Screen. Hours of trawling useless Microsoft posts to see its a common issue but none of the suggested fixes worked.

I installed Pop! OS, which is essentially Ubuntu but Ive heard works very well with games. Few small hiccoughs getting used to the UI paradigm shift but its motoring along now with no problems. My 5 year old desktop is running much smoother with less overall resource use too. Feels snappier.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The smoother part sounds very appealing. I will look into this distro. Thanks.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Let me know what you think of it! I had some minor issues with my secondary hard drive, but they were entirely my fault, I had a lot of backups on it so didn't initially reformat it from NTFS which I was using for windows to ext4 which is a native Linux format. It would sometimes not mount the drive on boot, but after transferring the backups to an external drive and reformatting the internal drive it was all good.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Just do it, it's a perfectly functional os. Almost all of them.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

That's the reason I swapped.

So far it's been a good switch

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The easiest distro I have used so far it's Endeavour-Os (for my desktop). All my homelab uses debian except the mandatory W11 VM and a WS for veeam.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Endeavour-Os sounds appealing. I like easy!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Download the Mint live CD and give it a shot!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That is a great idea. And since my desktop is old as a dinosaur it still has a cd burner. So I'll take it as a win LOL

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Do it now. It's great!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

The only realistic answer to the win11 situation. I chose bazzite because I like to game. It's a dream, I never looked back.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I mean there's also 0patch.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Why wait? Switch now and get used to it.

I switched last August.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Say what you will but I'm kind of addicted to the PC Gamepass. I have to get through a backlog before I give it up.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

That's how they get you.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Same same, I just hope I can replace my dying PC before switching

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I just did that, using Fedora KDE now, works great

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I'm already rocking Manjaro, put my old windows boot drive in a box in case I need it for whatever reason.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Mint + a game-box user myself :-)

Sometimes there is an old soft inly working on windows, but they are getting more and more rare as they no monger work on windows... Fantastic.

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